Organizations can avoid producing bad managers by ensuring that they want the responsibility of growing and developing team members and are ready to meet higher standards, writes consultant and podcaster John Broer. "Becoming a manager is different than being a successful individual contributor and there is no correlation between individual success and the capacity to grow and develop others," he writes.
Nearly two-thirds of respondents have bought office equipment during the pandemic, and more than a quarter have experienced neck and back pain, according to a recent SmartBrief and TechRadar Pro survey. But it is still the responsibility of the employer to ensure the "occupational health and safety" of a worker whether working from home on in the office.
After decades working in jobs of varying degrees of ill-fitting, Andy Robin is giving readers permission to fail freely after 50 and embrace this new life lesson, as the author of 'Tapas Life', a self-help book to help guide new retirees through their new daily lives. Failure can take many forms including staying at a dead-end job to pay the bills or trying a new field of study or work altogether.
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Indiana and Ivy Tech Community College are partnering to offer free career coaching to all residents using federal coronavirus relief funds. Under the program, career coaches will help those who are interested identify their career goals and determine a pathway to achieve them.
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Google will now adjust compensation based on a worker's location, as 20% of the company's workforce will remain remote and another 20% will work from an office other than their assigned one. This week, Google rolled out its Work Location Tool to allow workers who are considering a move or remote work to estimate salary changes.
New York City, London, Singapore and other financial centers have yet to win back office workers because of lingering restrictions, slow vaccination campaigns or a desire for flexible schedules, according to surveys and government data. "Offices are becoming an intentional destination just like shopping malls, where people don't go back all the time to get individual tasks done," says Christine Li, a regional research leader at Knight Frank in Singapore.
The Globetrotters make some excellent points in their letter to NBA Commissioner Adam Silver. There were times when the Globetrotters were the most famous hoops team in the world, so why not give 'em a chance? And if the Globetrotters become an NBA franchise, does that mean the Washington Generals will also get a chance to join the league?
